I'm tired of thinking and I'm really tired of Feeling. —Jenna Richards

Often, the human animal dresses terror in rage, and expresses both in a way unlike either.

The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.

Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings

But there are times when a tree can no longer withstand the pain inflicted on it, and the wind will take pity on that tree and topple it over in a mighty storm. All the other trees who witnessed the evil look down upon the fallen tree with envy. They pray for the day when a wind will end their suffering. I pray for the day when God will end mine.

Faith is not something that one has; faith is something that one practices at the very moment in your life when you really don't believe anything, and you're in the worst kind of despair.

We remember with our emotions. The things that were important in our emotional life, that's what we remember.